Category: operation

As mentioned in my previous post, this will be the last one in my brain surgery and recovery blog post series. Specifically, this is about confidence after a brain surgery and getting strong and healthy again. Confidence after brain surgery Right after surgery, I wasn’t really up for looking at myself in the mirror, partly…

I have written quite a few posts about my meningioma and brain surgery over the past months. If you are interested in this or are going through something similar, please have a read. I do hope that it’ll help you understand and possibly be less scared and more positive. It’s been about 8 months and...

I stayed in the hospital for 9 more days after my brain surgery. Some doctor almost threw me out exactly a week after my brain surgery, but my body said no and I was given 2 more days. In average, they say it is between one week to 10 days, which does not seem like...

I was going to write one whole post about my recovery after brain surgery, but as it turns out, I had a lot to say about the first 24 hours. I shall write about the time in the hospital and at home afterwards soon. If this is the first post you read about my brain...

It’s time for another post about my brain surgery I had last September. Last time I wrote about how I prepared leading up to the surgery. This one is about the eve of the surgery and the morning before. I’ll try to keep it light, yet informative. The surgery was scheduled for a Tuesday morning …

If you’ve been following my blog for the past couple of months, you’ll know that I had a benign brain tumour that had to be taken out via surgery. Naturally, there were some risks and open questions involved that had me in a right state of panic. The panic came in waves, most likely because …

I realise I am going a bit back and forth in my story about my meningioma, surgery and recovery. Last time I wrote about having a cortisol profile test and today I thought I’d go back a few steps in the timeline and share a bit more about the diagnosis, risks and the many questions …

Today, I had a cortisol profile test, which is used to assess the cortisol hormone levels throughout the morning and to ensure that the current dosage of hydrocortisone is the correct one for me. The cortisol hormone is controlled by the pituitary gland that sits right at the base of the brain and has been …

This has been a difficult post in the making and at the time of writing I am still not sure whether I will publish this. Some of you reading my blog know that I left my job last July to take some time out to basically figure out my next steps not just in my …

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